Belgium at the Brink

The latest Flemish-Walloon political crisis started brewing almost as soon as the last one ended.

By

Martin Buxant

Jan. 16, 2013 3:50 p.m. ET

Brussels

Three years ago, I was having lunch in an Italian restaurant with the leader of Belgium's Flemish nationalist party, Bart De Wever. "Give me Elio Di Rupo as prime minister of Belgium and then make Prince Philippe a king," the head of the New Flemish Alliance told me. "Within five years Belgium will be finished. Game...